A look at where this highly infectious disease has impacted the Golden State

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Vaccines are ready to be administered at the Family Justice Center clinic in Oakland, Calif., on Thursday, Feb. 26, 2015. According to health officials, diseases such as measles, chicken pox and others are making a comeback. (Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group)

A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says 704 individual cases of measles have been reported in the United States so far this year, including 78 in just the past week — and the country is now facing the largest outbreak of the highly contagious disease since it was declared eliminated in 2000. Among the 22 states that have reported cases in 2019, California has been particularly hard hit, with four separate outbreaks linked to patients who had traveled outside the United States and been in areas that are currently experiencing measles outbreaks.

As of April 24, the most recent report by the CDC, 38 confirmed measles cases, including 28 outbreak-associated cases, have been reported in the Golden State. And of the nine jurisdictions currently experiencing outbreaks in the United States, three of them are in California — and the disease has turned up in 11 counties so far.

This map shows how the measles outbreak has affected different parts of the state.